The OSS community has yet to come to grips with “Companies with $50 million in the bank send an incredible volume of support requests to people who are worried about making their $600 rent, and the community and culture in OSS makes this feel normal.”https://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1067497894394028032 …
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Until we get to this world where capitalist enterprise somehow had been convinced to pay for FOSS, the Node community should figure out how to give maintainers options such as a"retirement home" for packages the owner can't maintain anymore.
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Then once those options are established, the community should decide what responsibilities an owner has for ethical transfer of responsibility, and reify that decision in the NodeJS Code of Conduct.
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You know, licenses like the MIT X11 license and the GPL are also very unambiguous about this kind of thing.
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I think the problem isn’t there isn’t a great upgrade path from random coder to supported resource, and there are plenty of terrible downgrade paths from useless coder to resources demanding support. The weird thing is how many things that demand payment are worse than free.
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I need a variety of tools and libraries for weird uses, and reliably, the author wants a long drawn out conversation to make sure I’m not getting too much consumer surplus.
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especially the fact that they complain about what he "should have done". really. he. should have done.
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Did your contracts never include a warranty, perhaps time limited?
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I assume there's similar handling of even old pro-bono legal clients: there might be a duty to refer the client to other firms / bar association lists / etc. to find further counsel, but not much more
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